Millie Bobby Brown on Surprising Part of Motherhood

It’s a tale as old as time: how becoming a parent often comes with a new, endless capacity for love.

Nevertheless, it took Millie Bobby Brown and her husband Jake Bongiovi welcoming their first child—a baby girl they adopted in 2025—to completely understand it for herself.

In fact, she said no one could have prepared her for “the love” she’d feel for her daughter. 

“People say they love their children,” the Stranger Things star noted in a conversation with UNICEF, shared June 1. “I couldn’t—I don’t understand how that much happens in my heart. The feeling is so overwhelming. It’s just incomprehensible.”

And while the 22-year-old and Jake, 24, have only recently stepped into the role of first-time parents, they’ve got a major support system in their respective mothers, Kelly Brown and Dorothea Hurley. 

“Naturally, just when you see something, like they’re doing something, you’re like, ‘Is that normal? Do they do that?’” Millie explained. “And I call my mum, she is just like my 9-1-1. It’s like, ‘Mum, did I do this? Did my siblings do this?’ And she’s like, ‘Oh yeah, that’s completely normal. They do that all the time.’”